Today I am a guest over at Reading a Little Bit of Everything

 

Today I have the honor of being a guest over at

Kerry-Anne's blog:

Reading A Little Bit Of Everything

Stop by, say hello, and enter to win an ebook copy of

Owned by Him by Victoria Beaumont

 

 



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Become a tour host for Tasty Book Tours

 

Tasty Book Tours is new to the book blogger world!

They just celebrated their launch last week and are looking for a few good book bloggers to sign up to become a host. Tasty Tours already has a list of wonderful authors & books ready to go on tour.

Stop by, Sign up, join in the fun, & tell them

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Dancing With Detective Danger review, spotlight & contest

Dancing with Detective Danger book blurb:

 

Uncovering secrets and exposing truth are all in a day’s work for private investigator Sterling Aegar. But when her latest case threatens to reveal her own buried feelings for an old love, Sterling runs for cover.

 

A body in the bathtub and pleas from a jilted wife to find her wayward husband mean a welcome break from the usual humdrum cases Sterling and her sister, Lacey, are called to investigate. But when Sterling’s old flame, Detective Ben Kirby, walks into the murder scene, she feels her world spin out of control. Danger from thugs and murderers poses no greater threat than the peril she’d suffer if she lets daredevil Ben get too close.

Seeing Sterling for the first time in two years is for Ben like drinking in a healing tonic. He could never forget the way it felt to run his hands over her delicious curves or the way she touched his soul. She remains the one person who can make the emptiness in his gut go away. Finding the murderer is his job, but protecting Sterling from seriously dangerous

people is his mission.

As the case unfolds, Sterling and Ben not only solve the murder and locate the missing husband, they confront secrets that set them each free from a painful past.

 

Excerpt:

 

Here’s a peek at the main characters’ first meet up in since their break up two years ago, told from the hero’s point of view.

 

Ben stood behind the richly embroidered drapes at the condo’s living room window and

discreetly watched Sterling walk to the car as he shuffled paperwork through his fingers. Her

petite frame, dressed in a slim gray suit, pulled his attention as though he had no control.

 

That’s the way it was with her. He hadn’t seen her for two years, but all during that time he’d

been unable to will her out of his thoughts for very long. Seeing her up close and feeling her

presence today had stirred up old feelings inside him. After they’d gotten together, the terrible

aloneness he’d grown to live with had vanished. It hadn’t mattered that before she’d come along

he’d had no one, no family, because she’d completely filled the emptiness in his gut. Then when

she left, he’d felt all the more alone for having known but lost her.

 

Sterling’s straight, chestnut-colored hair had grown longer, brushing gently against her slim

shoulders. He liked it. And the two years apart had worn beautifully on her fine-boned face. She

looked even lovelier than he remembered. In the brief moments he’d stood next to her, he’d

taken in everything: her shapely curves, her intense, blue-green eyes, her sensuously curved lips

the color of a rich Merlot wine.

 

Ben’s stomach tightened. It had to happen sooner or later, he thought to himself. Even though

Sterling had left his life, it seemed inevitable that they’d run into each other sometime while

working a case. He’d like to think it meant their destinies were intimately intertwined. That even

though their paths might occasionally diverge and meander, they were actually headed in the

same direction. She’d been emphatic at their breakup that there was no future for the two of

them—that they wanted different things in life—but he just didn’t believe it. He believed in

possibilities, and though in the interim he’d given Sterling her space, the hope remained strong in

him that eventually, along the way, they would come together again, perhaps even stronger than

before.

 

Ben watched Sterling drive away and couldn’t help himself. Was it too much to hope maybe

this time it could be different?

 

 

Brief bio:

Lynn Crandall started spinning stories as a child when she tried to entertain her younger sister at night when they were supposed to be going to sleep. In the dark, her stories typically took on a scary or paranormal element -- didn't do much to put them to sleep. Today, she hopes her stories still fail to put readers to sleep, but rather take them on a journey. That's what she’s been on since she decided to make writing her focus. As a reporter and magazine feature writer, she truly enjoys learning as she works on stories. As a romance writer, she enjoys doing the research and following an evolving story of the characters.

Links:

http://www.lynn-crandall.com/

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16719189-dancing-with-detective-danger

http://www.amazon.com/Lynn-Crandall/e/B00AX9OA40

@lcrandall246

 

Review:

Let me start out by saying I am a "romantic suspense junky" I love this type of story-line. This specific story was not one of my favorites. It seemed to be a bit choppy in the romance department. I understood, through the book, that Ben  & Sterlling had a past together. I kind of wish we were shown more of it. This might have given me a better Idea of their relationship now. But overall they "worked" as a couple. I just added a few of my own ideas in my head as I went along.

 The suspense part was fine. I was not able to "figure it all out" so that is a plus for me.

I was not quite sure if I liked the parts about Sterling's sister, Lacey and what she was involved with through-out the story (not gonna tell-it will give too much away) but by the end I actually "got it" and was pleaseed

                                                     Overall rating-3 keys

Hotness rating-

 

 

*this book was supplied by the author for my honest review



 

The Author, Lynn Crandall, is offering one lucky commenter tour-wide a chance to win a

$15.00 Amazon or B&N Gift card. Please leave a comment below for your chance to win!

Then check out the other stops along this tour.

The more you comment the more chances you have to win!

Good Luck!

http://tastybooktours.blogspot.com/2013/01/now-booking.html

Out in Blue by Sarah Gilman

Blue in the Wild Contest: Find Wren and Ginger to Win a Nook!

Love is in the Air Blog Hop 2/7-2/14

  Thank you to Under The Covers Book Blog for hosting this fantabulous hop!   It is that time of year...love is in the air... and to celebrate I am a book addict...and proud of it along with many other blogs, will be offering up book love to our many followers! So when you are done here...follow the LINKY below for more chances at great goodies!   The other day, I was thinking back to the first Valentines Day, Hubby & I celebrated together. We had only been dating for a few months, so trying to decide what to get him was driving me crazy. As it turned out, great minds think alike, and we got each other very similar gifts. Diamond earrings... well a pair for me & a single for him! WHAT?????!!! It was the 80's afterall... the decade of excess, big hair, & yup Aquanet  :) and YES, his hair was longer & bigger than mine..'nuff said on that subject!   Now for some book love.... For the chance to win a Kindle ebook copy of Maya Banks latest release: Rush Enter using the Rafflecopter below   Rush

Book 1 in the Breathless Trilogy

Gabe, Jace, and Ash: three of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the country. They’re accustomed to getting anything they want. Anything at all.
For Gabe, it’s making one particular fantasy come true with a woman who was forbidden fruit. Now she’s ripe for the picking…
When Gabe Hamilton saw Mia Crestwell walk into the ballroom for his hotel’s grand opening, he knew he was going to hell for what he had planned. After all, Mia is his best friend’s little sister. Except she’s not so little anymore. And Gabe has waited a long time to act on his desires.
Gabe has starred in Mia’s fantasies more than once, ever since she was a teenager with a huge crush on her brother’s best friend. So what if Gabe’s fourteen years older? Mia knows he’s way out of her league, but her attraction has only grown stronger with time. She’s an adult now, and there’s no reason not to act on her most secret desires.
As Gabe pulls her into his provocative world, she realizes there’s a lot she doesn’t know about him or how exacting his demands can be. Their relationship is intense and obsessive, but as they cross the line from secret sexual odyssey to something deeper, their affair runs the risk of being exposed—and vulnerable to a betrayal far more intimate than either expected.


 

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Shiloh Walker’s MAKING AMENDS Reunited Book Tour + Prizes!

 

You can follow the tour here

Dancing With Detective Danger book tour

Dancing With Detective Danger Book Tour

& contest

 

 

 

 

If you follow the book tour, author, Lynn Crandall will be offering a $15.00 AMAZON/or B&N Gift Card to a randomly drawn commenter throughout the tour.

So check out the stops along the tour, leave a comment for your chance to win.

 

Here are the scheduled stops

 

Feb 4th- Reading Renee

Feb 5th- Crazy Four Books

Feb 6th- A Tasty Read Reviews

Feb 7th- Toot's Book Reviews

Feb 9th- Storm Goddess Book Reviews

Feb 11th- Emerald Musings

*Feb 11th- I am a Book Addict...and Proud of It (Stop 2)

Feb 12th- Scandalicious Book Reviews

Feb 14th- Romance Bookworm
Feb 14th- Busy Moms Book Reviews (Stop 2)

Feb 14th- Unshelved: Ubiquitously Excellent Book Reviews (Stop 3)

Feb 15th- Smitten with Reading

 

or you can follow the tour here

 

Wanna Get Wrecked???

Arc Tour: Wrecked by Shiloh Walker

Wanna get Wrecked???!!

Wrecked by Shiloh Walker will be released on April 2, 2013. Here’s your chance to read it.

There are 5 spots available on this tour.

Here's how it works: The book starts with me-then, after I finish reading it, I will mail it to the next person on the tour (the person living closest to me).

Each person has ONE WEEK to read Wrecked. At the end of the week, you mail it to the next person on the tour.

 I will email you the next person’s info. When you mail it out you will then email me & the next person the confirmation # --the USPS does lose packages. The confirmation helps keep track.

Reviews are to be posted the last week two weeks of March or the first week of April. If you cannot commit to this, please do not enter.

Participants are responsible for the cost of shipping & confirmation. The ARC must be mailed via USPS Priority Mail *Flat Rate Envelope* with Delivery Confirmation-$6.75 is the approx. cost). Due to time constraints (and the post office) the tour is limited to US residents only.

To participate, you must have an active book blog.

 Book Blurb:

 In the nineties, Abigale Applegate and Zach Barnes were the most beloved sitcom child stars in the world.

Then they grew up and left Hollywood behind…

 Whatever happened to Abigale Applegate?

 She’s been wondering the same thing.

 With her Hollywood dreams long gone, Abigale now has a nice, neat, uncomplicated life—until the day her perfect fiancé needs to talk. Dumped, a little more than shattered, and totally confused, Abigale turns to Zach, her best friend since forever, to help her pick up the pieces. He does it with a gift—a copy of Wreck This Journal. She can vent her frustrations, and sketch out a new plan. Zach just hopes he’s part of it. Because he’s been in love with Abigale his entire life.

 When the journal falls into Zach’s hands, he discovers Abigale wants a new man. And fast. Nothing more than a hot distraction. Zach has a strategy, too. He’s going to be that man. It’s his last chance. Abigale might be out to shake up her life, but Zach’s out to reinvent it. Now, all he has to do is convince Abigale that life can go as planned.

You can check out an excerpt from Wrecked here

 *Now, there are rules to this ARC tour and to be chosen you have to agree to follow these rules to the letter. If you cannot commit to ALL of these rules then please don’t sign up.

 The ARC Tour rules:

 · All participants chosen must send their info to me before they are added to the list. Without your mailing/contact info, we cannot add you. Your information will remain private.

 · You must email me ( Kleah921 at gmail dot com ) when you receive the ARC.

· You will have ONE WEEK to read the ARC before you must mail it off to the next person.

· You must get Delivery Confirmation and email me the confirmation number.

· You will have ONE WEEK from the date you mail the ARC to post your review.

· You must post your review on your blog. Email me the links to your reviews and I will post them here.

· The last person on the tour must mail the ARC back to me.

· By registering for the ARC tour, you agree not to scan/copy/digitize the ARC and respect author copyright.



It is very important that the ARC gets circulated quickly to everyone on the tour so that we can all get our reviews up before the release date.

 To sign up please leave a comment below agreeing to all the rules & Include a link to your blog.

Sign up will be open now through Tuesday 1/22 & I will announce the 5 participants on Wednesday 1/23.

 

Opal Carew's new serial novel His To Command releases today 01/08

What's a serial novel you ask??

well, it's a old concept that seems to have gotten new life lately. Parts of the book are released every week, bi-weekly, monthly or whatever amount of time is decided. Maybe it will be 4or5 chapters every 2 weeks or 6 chapters every 4 weeks. Either way this older concept of the serial story has been seeing a brand new life of late, and one of the authors who is releasing a serial novel is Opal carew!

 

As a matter of fact the first 2 installments of His To Command release today!

I was lucky enough to be chosen by Opal Carew's publisher to receive an early copy of installment #1 for review.

 

 

His to Command #1 The Chase

From author Opal Carew comes the first sizzling segment in the erotic serial novel His to Command that explores one woman's surrender to desire at the hands of a dominant billionaire.

Strong, independent, smart, Kate is a modern business woman who knows exactly how to run her well organized world. But underneath her professional exterior lurks a secret she's been running from for years...a secret desire to be dominated that both exhilarates her and terrifies her. When an old lover, Matt Pearce, unexpectedly shows up, Kate is bombarded by sensual memories of their affair. Matt was the first and only man to give her a taste of domination, and she's never been able to forget. But though she's spent years trying to forget him, this time she may not be able to get away.

The first question I asked myself is...how do I review part of a book? I am not too sure on this but here goes nothing....or something

 

So far, so good! It seems to be typical Opal Carew writing (which I very much always enjoy)

There haven't been too many hawt scenes, YET! But, knowing Opal's writing I am very sure this will eventually get extremely hot! The first installment sets the backstory of this couple. It gets the reader ready to jump right in with what's to be. This is the first serial that I have read (that I remember anyway) and after reading just the first installment of this one, I know I am so ready for more of it. I cannot give a rating since this is really only about the first few chapters. I think later on down the road, I will rate it.

Here are the release dates for this serial:

1/8/2013 #1 The Chase and #2 The Capture
1/15/2013 #3 The Revalation
1/22/2013 #4 The Arrangement
1/29/2013 #5 The Submission
2/5/2013 #6 The Surrender

Check out Opal Carew's website for more on this fun serial release



Here are a couple other serials that are soon to be released:

From Author Lisa Renee Jones, Rebecca's Lost Journals (this is part of her Inside Out trilogy)
also from Lisa Renee Jones, Beneath the Secrets (this is part of her Tall, Dark, & Deadly series)

Naughty New Years Blog Hop

Happy 2013!

The new year always brings on discussions about resolutions. Whether it's around the water cooler at work or while you're having cocktails with your friends, most people vow to lose weight, quit smoking, or some such vow that is always broken by January 20th.

In light of the tragedy on 12/14 in Connecticut and because of a huge health scare earlier this year with my Mom I decided this year to go about it a bit different.

I am going to vow to be a better person for my family! Be a better Mom to my children, a better wife to my husband, a better daughter to my Mom, and a better sister to my other siblings.

These days families seem to just grow apart and my family is no different. We all have our busy hectic lives,but that shouldn't mean we can't make the time to get together or even just check in with each other. I vow to change all of that. It is family that makes us who we are, It is family that should always be by your side no matter the circumstances.

Ok, enough of me on my soapbox!
I truly hope you are able to stick to whatever your resolution may be this year.


THANK YOU to Skye Warren


for putting together this huge


Naughty New Years BLOG HOP !








There are over 200 Authors & Bloggers that have come together for this occasion!

You will have the opportunity to not only win a prize from each individual blog you visit on this hop, but, for every comment you make on the different blogs you will receive an entry for one of 2 grand prizes!

(ie: visit 35 blogs, leave 35 comments, you get 35 entries)
What are the grand prizes you ask???

A $100 Gift Card to sexy fun online shop EdenFantasys


                               &

An Erotic Bundle – 10 New Releases from Hot Authors







WOW!

Those 2 prizes alone are worth entering for, but if you hop through the linky list below you will discover many more giveaways available!



Now what am I giving away for this Naughty New Years Hop?



For those who enjoyed Lauren Dane's Brown Sibling series...

She has a new series that is connected to Gillian from

Never Enough (Brown Siblings # 4)

It's called A Delicious series.

Book #1 in the series, Sway, came out in the Anthology with Maya Banks, titled Cherished.

I am giving away the Kindle ebook version of the 2nd story in the Delicious series...

Tart





Juliet Lamprey is having the time of her life running her successful bakery, TART, when Gideon Carter comes back into her life. Returning home to help his grandfather run the family farm, Gideon is back for good. When they meet again, the spark between them is immediate, and it isn’t long before the former childhood friends play catch up—in bed.

That’s not good news for local lawyer Cal Whaley. Though the sexually open but strictly monogamous Cal has loved Jules for a long time, he’s hardly ever taken it further than friendship. When he sees her start to fall for Gideon, he knows he has to make his move or risk losing her forever.

Who would have anticipated that all three of them would connect on such an intimate level? The trio’s scalding liaisons take them places they’ve never dreamed. But such an intensely passionate and unusual relationship comes with equally as complicated emotions, and when Jules must suddenly leave town, she wonders if she’ll have a choice to make when she returns…



Please use the Rafflecopter form below to enter for my specific giveaway, thenleave a comment below for an entry for the grand prize. Don't forget to hop on over to the other blogs for more entries for the grand prize nad for more giveaways on each blog.

Thanks for stopping by







HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Here is the Linky List for the other participants
Sorry when I add the list it makes my post go all crazy looking